ICS Collection Service, Inc. (“ICS”) is a debt collection agency specializing in recovering aged debt from individuals (“debtors”) on behalf of healthcare and commercial entities (“clients” or “creditors”), including University of Chicago Physicians Group (“UCPG”). ICS had previously contracted with UCPG for collection and address verification services. While the contract had been terminated before the potential breach…
Failure to encrypt results in EPIC breach
Sometime in the evening of July 16 or the early morning hours of July 17, burglars managed to steal five laptop computers from the offices of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) in San Francisco. The theft was discovered on the 17th and reported to the police, but as of September 6, the laptops – one…
Burglar snatches laptop with patient medical records from San Jose internist's office
Hankyu Chung, M.D., an internist in San Jose, California, reports that on June 16, there was a burglary at his offices. The burglar was able to gain access to the offices by entering the building complex through an unlocked door and using the crawl space above the office to gain access to it. The burglary…
GA: Thousands of social security numbers sent in email
And this may be the winning entry for “Email Gaffe of the Week:” An employee error compromised thousands of people’s personal information, including social security numbers, the Georgia Department of Labor said. A spreadsheet containing the names, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers and email addresses of 4,457 people who filed for unemployment in Georgia was…
Former state of Minnesota worker stole IDs of 269 public employees, charges say
Emily Gurnon reports that investigators have found the names and SSN of 269 public employees in the home of a former employee of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. Roxanne Kay Deflorin “may have been a source of some of the stolen identities” used by three other women charged in the case, the complaint said….
Final re-Analysis of the britam defense leak files
Back in January i did a story on a leak that was claimed to be from britam defence. Since then the story has gone down some shady paths with daily mail being sued by britam defence to removed an article relating to the incident, infowars also picked up the story and has now recently removed…